 | Edwin Markham - 1899 - 154 pagini
...image of God made He him. — Genesis. Bowed by the weight of centuries. he leans Upon his hoe;and gazes on the ground, - — The emptiness of ages in...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. I Who made him dead to rapture and despair, c A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid... | |
 | Minnesota State Horticultural Society - 1899 - 552 pagini
...the Hoe," and realize how large a share of agriculturists it truly represents, we ask with Markham: "Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?" It is not race nor soil which has "shaped him to what he is," for we... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1899 - 238 pagini
...have bowed the back, and dulled the brain, and darkened the heart of "the Man with the Hoe," " And made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox," 1 — these things have put a new and dreadful emphasis upon the exceeding... | |
 | David Starr Jordan, Joshua Harrison Stallard - 1899 - 156 pagini
...Like the ox he feeds and sleeps only to be able to renew his labors. Stolid and stunned he becomes dead to rapture and despair, a thing that grieves not, and that never hopes. From all the stretch of hell to its last gulf, there is no shape more terrible, more tongued with censure... | |
 | California. Commission in Lunacy, 1897- - 1899 - 1352 pagini
...staring eyes meet one's gaze on every hand. Helpless and immedicable they suggest some gruesome shape, dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes." Add to these the tubercular and criminal cases, and the hapless picture is complete. And, constructed... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 966 pagini
...THE MILLET PAINTING BY God made man in His own image, in the image of God made He him. — GENESIS. to a Spartan mother's breast On many a bloody shield;...on, embalmed and sainted dead t Dear as the blood stunned, a brother to the ox ? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw ? Whose was the hand that... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 954 pagini
...image, in the image of God made He him. — GENESIS. BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon bis hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages...that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox ? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw ? Whose was the hand that... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1900 - 148 pagini
...World-Famous Painting God made man in His own image, in the image of God made He him.—- Genesis. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, * \l:"\\.\:-'- ttf The Man with the Hoe A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned,... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1900 - 196 pagini
...is the poem, which was suggested by Millet's famous picture of a French peasant with the hoe : — Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despiir, A thing that grieves not * and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?... | |
 | E. C. Potter - 1900 - 70 pagini
...— He'll make ye new! I don't know what he does it with, But yet it's true I The Man with the Hoe Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his...his face And on his back the burden of the world. Before him yawns the bunker's dreaded deeps, The sand as by a typhoon whirled and tossed; And in a... | |
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Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid... 
